• NewNewAccount@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    12 parsecs is about 40 light years.

    The nearest star (Proxima Centauri) is 1.3 parsecs away.

    The nearest galaxy (Andromeda) is over 700,000 parsecs away.

    The scale of the universe is incomprehensible.